Police stop and search policy called into question / Muslim News, 26 Jan 2007
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2816
Safa Suling Tan
"Pressure by the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) for the police to rethink the use of special stop and search powers may have a positive result on the way the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), other security services and government bodies exercise their counter-terrorism practices and authority. The MPA, being a body tasked to democratise policing by scrutinising and holding the MPS to public account, had organised a series of hearings – ‘Counter Terrorism: The London Debate’ – to facilitate community engagement to counter terrorism and enable Londoners to have a voice with regards to the police stop and search powers under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. "